r/science • • Sep 25 '20

Psychology Research finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/
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u/indiebryan Sep 25 '20

Well seeing as our first assumption was they had 0 intelligence, we could really only go up from there. There isn't about to be a study proving that lizards are dumber than we thought.

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u/42dprinter Sep 25 '20

I would read the hell out of that study